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HRTECH Product Managers: Decouple Application and UI Now. Learn from Disney!

I think about user experiences and user interfaces a lot, but I'm not a designer. I buy a lot of design books, cos they ...

Kids looking at newspaper. in the 1950s.

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SaaS Product Power Breakfast #4. With special guest Anshu Sharma!

Dave and I are getting into the swing of the power breakfast thing on clubhouse. Every Thursday,...

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Incumbents aren't always incumbent. The case of Employee Communications.

Don't be afraid of the establishment A start up leader told me the other day that they didn‘t want...

Founders,Large Vendors

The second SaaS product power breakfast on clubhouse. Thomas interviews Dave

The SaaS Product Power Breakfast Second Edition. This week’s product power breakfast will, in...

Founders,Large Vendors,HRTech

HRTECH Product Managers: Decouple Application and UI Now. Learn from Disney!

I think about user experiences and user interfaces a lot, but I'm not a designer. I buy a lot of...

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SaaS Product Power Breakfasts, Thursdays at 8 AM Pacific on Clubhouse

So I'm going to give this Clubhouse thing a spin. Dave Kellogg and I are going to be doing a show...

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A new website and an HRTECH newsletter

Time flies. Having been in business for over 2 years, I figured it was time to re-do the website,...

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HR departments. Include M&A scenarios in your HRTECH planning.

I’ve been involved directly and indirectly in M&A in some form or other throughout my career. I...

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What Enterprise HR Product Managers can learn from SME

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On International Women's Day

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Strategy in nascent markets: Utmost and the extended workforce.

My regular merry band of readers may remember I’m spending time studying strategy. I figured as I...

Carlsberg – Probably the best ad in the world. – I wish I'd thought of that

The Carlsberg of product managers joins Unit4.

Carlsberg ad. Carlsberg beer has/had the tongue in check tagline, “probably the best beer in the...

Workday and Peakon. My take.

Workday agreed to acquire Peakon yesterday. There is an obvious logic to this deal. Engagement...

A guest lecture on Product Management at FAU.

Thanks to Prof Dirk Riehle, I get to do a guest lecture to the COSS masters class at...

Lego, enterprise architecture and the job advert.

Who's your pick for 2021? pic.twitter.com/j8iHnzPjyR — Ethics in Bricks (@EthicsInBricks)

Salesforce and Slack. Mind the gap.

I’m not one to try and get a razor sharp analysis out before I have had my tea and rashers. There...

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How not to work with HRTECH start-ups. The enterprise edition.

"Be cautious about generalizing, especially if it leads you to the conclusion that other people are...

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M&A in HR TECH: Theory meets practice. iCIMS acquires EASYRECRUE.

M&A book M&A Strategy at Oxford: Last month I attended the first module of the Oxford Post...

Zooming in on your front-end and our old friend the API: Some Advice for HRTECH product managers, designers and their long suffering users.

I have pontificated on APIs and Frontend strategy more than once, so I expect there will be some...

A test for your time and attendance or HR Systems vendor

It’s astounding Time is fleeting Madness takes its toll But listen closely Not for very much longer...

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HR tech applications vendors. Build HR tech applications.

I admit, I’m spending too much time doom-scrolling in twitter, but between the wailing and gnashing...

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User interfaces are not just look and feel. Words matter.

I have seen more HR software user interfaces (UI) than almost anyone on this planet. I reckon there...

Accessibility and the courts. HRTECH held to account?

T-shirt. Ironing is optional, accessibility isn’t. HRTECH and inaccessibility Over the course of...

Melting HR bureaucracy

The tastiest employment contract I‘ve ever seen. German version here. We talk a lot about making HR...

Happy 2nd anniversary.

After almost 20 years at SAP, Thomas and I decided that I become the first employee at Otter...

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The difficult second album. Advice for HRTECH vendors.

Warning: long, rambling metaphor. Readers of my blog and twitter feed will have seen that I have an...

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On technical debt.

I solved a major domestic technical debt project last weekend. In my basement I had a box of...

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Made in Germany

This post originally appeared in German on the Haufe Personal website. I write a regular column...

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A wee thought on machine learning and data provenance.

This morning on twitter I read a rather amusing story.

Joining the Immedis board

One of the first engagements I had after launching Otter Advisory was with Scottish Equity...

On APIs and Onions.

I as I have said before, if were to have my time over as a product leader again, I would have been...

Founders

Rhinos and Enterprise Product Management. The Really Hot Interesting New Opportunity. Advice for Product Managers.

A chat with James Governor about HIPPOs caused me to search fruitlessly for a post that I knew I...

AI kool-aid consumption: naivety and hubris?

The ability of AI technology and automation to discriminate at scale is well documented. Just this...

Product demo advice from Delia and Nat.

Recently I saw two product demos. Both were about 15 minutes long, but they were very different....

Doing the podcast/webcast/video thingy. With Jason Averbook.

I was an early adopter of podcasts. Craig Cmehil and I experimented with it back in the days of the...

Microsoft do this very well. So should you. #MSBuild

I spent some time this evening watching the Microsoft build event, mainly James Phillips’ session...

On niche specialization

I have spent most of my career working at, and analysing mega-vendors. Portfolios, markets, pricing...

It’s all about the data

We have heard from many analysts that this is HR’s moment to shine. For HRTECH vendors too, this...

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Tech: Let’s follow and support, but not lead.

Yesterday I wrote about the need for HRTECH vendors (and users) to be cautious about building and...

COVID-19 and your HR related applications. Suggestions for users and builders.

I felt there were more than enough folks posting advice about COVID-19 and HRTECH, so having made...

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Advice for #HRTECH marketing departments as of March 16th 2020.

A quick Google search of “never waste a crisis” attributes the quote to Winston Churchill. After a...

Application icons in human hand. Wireless technologies

Of seamless, seams, Conway and APIs.

Many enterprise software vendors promise seamless integration. This strikes me as both impossible...

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Reflections from the Unit4 sales kickoff.

In my career I have attended a variety of sales kick offs, as an employee and as an external...

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Documentation and Safety.

Safety image (via flashbak) I recently read the latest book by Gene Kim, the Unicorn Project....

The Future of Work Index by Acadian Ventures

I see lots of theories about what the HRTECH market is worth. The numbers range dramatically,...

Have you got skills? Cornerstone acquires Clustree. Some thoughts.

Cornerstone acquires Clustree. This was announced today.

Investors

A book review: Trailblazer. Marc Benioff and Monica Langley.

I read all sorts of books, but I’m generally not a fan of CEO books. They are usually ghost written...

Please welcome Michaela Schilling to Otter Advisory.

When I first joined SuccessFactors, Adam Kovalevsky kindly introduced me to his Executive...

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Test data discipline. A Wakanda moment.

I probably sound like a broken record on this, but don’t use characters from movies or famous...

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Pizza and how it will change the software industry for the better

This post has nothing to do with the dietary requirements of software engineers.

Out of stealth mode (Utmost). And a trip to Orlando.

Since I started Otter Advisory late last year, I’ve worked with a variety of HRTECH vendors, and I...

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With great power comes great responsibility.

HRTECH has a curious relationship with law and regulations. On the one hand, it owes its genesis to...

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Doing one thing really well, and thinking about the science.

There is an obvious attraction to buying a broad suite solution. The benefits are oft repeated, and...

Otter Advisory, a year in, and the year ahead.

Otter pondering It was almost a year ago that I launched Otter Advisory. Leaving a 90,000 employee...

Epictetus and APIs (Clone)

First page of Discourses by Epictetus Don’t set your heart on so many things,” says Epictetus....

Brexit, dropping HR IT in it.

#Dropbox tells me that “data transfers from the UK to the US will continue to be covered by our...

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It is done.

This morning, at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, I successfully defended my PhD. I...

Monkigras and accessibility

Over the years I have been to many software conference and events. And just before it was übercool...

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Using worktech and science for good.

Workplace harassment is evil. It can make lives a misery. Victims often feel unable to speak out....

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Blankets and employee engagement at Microsoft.

Microsoft is on a roll, on several levels. Share price, mojo, accessibility, cloud computing,...

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What is a user interface strategy and why might you need one?

History repeats itself, but not exactly the same way as it did last time around. HR technology is...

Large Vendors

Attending Unleash, and some history.

It must have been nearly 8 years ago when I first talked to Marc Coleman and Peter Russell. They...

Launching Otter Advisory

Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a camel? Polonius: By the mass, and ‘tis like a...

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